Index of Production, UK: July 2026

The Office for National Statistics has released the UK Index of Production for July 2026. The report tracks the volume of production in UK production industries, including manufacturing, mining and quarrying, energy supply, and water and waste management. The figures are seasonally adjusted, and the release is positioned as a short-term indicator of how output is evolving month to month across key industrial groupings.

In addition to headline movements, the publication includes revisions-related information (such as revisions triangles) and methodological metadata about data collection, including Monthly Business Survey (production) response rates and export proportions for manufacturing industries. It also provides monthly index values and growth rates for production and the main industrial groupings.

For FX purposes, this type of release matters because it feeds directly into assessments of near-term UK growth and the balance between demand and supply dynamics. Changes in industrial output can influence expectations about how quickly the economy is expanding, and that can affect how markets think about the appropriate stance and timing of monetary policy.

Traders typically watch the direction of the month-on-month production changes and whether revisions alter earlier signals, since that can materially shift growth narratives even when the new print itself is modest. The next scheduled release is 15 October 2026.